With the launch of the MPI Grass-Fed Administrative Standards in June 2025 OverseerFM has moved on from the the old draft AsureQuality Grass-Fed Standard and now uses the terms of the MPI dairy and red meat standards to report on grass-fed status.
The MPI standards are legally recognised administrative standards to give exporters and local brands a single, defensible definition of “grass-fed”, and OverseerFM can help demonstrate if farms are meeting the definitions.
The term “grass-fed” has a connotation of animals with daily access to pasture year-round; the standards promote this whilst recognising that animal welfare is a priority and consideration must be given to environmental factors.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the terms of the standard are well represented within the software. Further information about the standard, and its implementation into Overseer can be found here. Queries about the standard, and certification options should be addressed to MPI.
Crops which meet the grass-fed standard include plantain, chicory, fodder beet, brassicas (such as kale, turnips, swedes, rape) and legumes (such as clover and lucerne). It also includes cereal grain crops (e.g., Maize, Wheat, Rice, Barley etc.) in the vegetative (pre-grain hardening) state.
In OverseerFM, crops that meet the grass fed standard are all those withing the Fodder, Forage, Pasture seed and Permanent pasture categories:
| Fodder | Forage | Pasture seed | Permanent Pasture |
| Fodder Beets | Annual Ryegrass | White clover | Pasture |
| Kale | Forage Barley * | Cocksfoot | |
| Rape | Forage oats * | Plantain | |
| Swedes | Forage wheat * | Ryegrass | |
| Turnip Bulb | Forage ryecorn * | ||
| Turnip Leafy | Forage triticale * | ||
Reference: Schedule 2 - New Zealand Dairy Grass-Fed Administrative Standard
*Cereal grain crops are considered to be part of a grass-fed diet only when they are in their greenfeed pre-dough stage i.e. have not yet produced hardened grains, or the grains have been harvested (removed so not available for consumption).
NB. This article only details those "crops" which can be applied to crop blocks within OverseerFM which meet the grass-fed standard. All pastures - as defined in Pasture blocks, including lucerne, kikuyu and others meet the definition of grass-fed feeds.